Bio

Visionary, innovator, designer, educator and author, Bruce Mau is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Massive Change Network, LLC. Additionally, in 2015 he was appointed Chief Design Officer at Freeman, the leading global provider of live brand experiences, in a move to drive innovation in the events industry. Bruce Mau: MC24 - Bruce Mau’s 24 Principles for Designing Massive Change in your Life and Work, published by Phaidon Press in July 2020, features essays, observations, project documentation, and design work by Mau and other high-profile architects, designers, artists, scientists, environmentalists, and thinkers of our time. Practical, playful, and critical, it equips readers with a tool kit and empowers them to make an impact and engender change on all scales. Mau's 30 years of experience in design innovation has included collaborations with many of the world’s leading institutions, corporations, heads of state, entrepreneurs and artists. For Bruce Mau, design is leadership that provides the power to imagine the vision of a future and the method to systematically achieve that vision. While most designers use design to produce things, Mau uses design as a method to produce the future and develop purposeful projects to create positive change in business, education, health, leadership and security. Mau has used his design method to lead innovation projects with Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, MTV, Herman Miller, MoMA, Freeman Company, Mori Building Company, Seattle Public Library, Panama Museum of Biodiversity, Walt Disney Imagineering, New Meadowlands Stadium, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Arizona State University, Northwestern University; and the countries of Saudi Arabia, Guatemala, and Denmark. Mau founded the Institute without Boundaries — a purpose driven, experienced-based entrepreneurial design studio-based postgraduate program in collaboration with George Brown College, Toronto. Mau and his students created the groundbreaking exhibition and best-selling book, Massive Change. Mau has authored and designed several award-winning books, including LifeStyle, S,M,L,XL in collaboration with Rem Koolhaas, the ZONE BOOKS series and The Third Teacher, co-authored with OWP/P Architects and VS Furniture. Mau’s ''Incomplete Manifesto for Growth'' is a 43-point statement of his creative philosphy and has been widely shared on the Internet and translated into more than 15 languages.